Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available now
We recently released Silverlight 2 Beta2 for public.
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 plug-in (runtime), Beta 2 SDK, Silverlight 2 Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 can be installed together from the following link:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120319
Blend 2.5 June Preview provides Silverlight 2 Beta 2 support and can be installed from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx?filter=prerelease
Here is a list of new features in Siverlight 2 Beta 2:
- .NET programming support (Visual Basic.NET, C#.NET, Iron Python, IronRuby)
- Isolated Storage for caching support on the client
- WCF support
- ADO.NET Data Services
- LINQ to Objects and LINQ to XML
- Deep Zoom technology
- XML programming
- Media content protection
- Rich managed control framework
- New set of controls to improve developer productivity (CheckBox, TextBox, RadioButotn, DataGrid, TabControl, etc.)
For more details please look at the following link: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx
Cheers,
Hanu
